I don't understand all the hate that's directed towards Wikipedia..... I guess that's because I just access the technical pages and stay away from the political ones.
Same with my experience. For example if I want to find something about a town on the other side of the world for some reason it is a good place to start and often enough for what I need. I have also edited, or written most of, a few articles in technical and history areas and my stuff is still there unchanged years later, and where it has changed it is usually corrections like typos, or added references.
No doubt if I got into edititing stuff about Trump, Brexit or Jimmy Wales' girlfriend, it would not remain unchanged for two minutes, but I don't try. Is that what people are complaining about?
Which does not stop you from gettings ads, you just get ads for the wrong location.
That's fine, I find that funny, and it is satisfying to know that the admen are wasting effort on me and that their data well is poisoned. Almost as good as getting a live sales phonecall - my pretending I'm interested then leaving the handset on the table squawking away for the next 5 minutes to no-one.
For some reason ads on the web have got the idea that I live in Uxbridge, a suburb of London 200 miles from me, and that I need laser surgery on my eyes. That's just funny, not that I see ads very often anyway. OTOH if an ad were to come up that was relevant, like I really did want laser surgery on my eyes, I'd find it intrusive and sinister; and anyway I'm perfectly capable of seeking providers myself so it's patronising.
Similar problem to snail mail, but that has a monopoly and certain legal requirements protecting it. Many people would tear out their mail boxes if not for a few legally required things
Tear out their mail boxes when on-line shopping has taken off? A great deal of stuff I order comes through my mail box, up to a size of about a 10" cube.
Junk mail is only a small problem and a diminishing one. Some has pre-paid return envelopes which I return giving the name and details of a known spammer and asking for more info, rep to call, email newsletter, etc. Otherwise it's useful kindling for the fire.
One in every 10 American adults lost money from a phone scam, according to a yearly report the firm published in April this year.
I find that figure amazingly high. If I'd guessed I would have thought only 1 in 50 would take the call seriously, and only 1 in 1000 hand over money. , With that figure I'm surprised the calls are not continuous. Are they sure of their data?
I am in the UK and get a scam call on average once a year by landline and once a day if I switch on my mobile (it's usually off). If I answer the mobile there is usually silence anyway - presumably the scammer found another mark while my phone was ringing. If they do answer it is always about PPI. I think it helps that my land line is in a rural area; so the area code not being so populated makes it not worth while for the scammers to work through numerically.
I guess this MS employee doesn't know much about the history of the company they work for.
Perhaps he does and assumes that MS can keep working the same way that they did - ie being in control of things, and expecting website developers to conform to their browser rather than being able to follow standards. Microsoft cannot cope with developing to standards, it is just not in their company culture, never has been.
Are you sure you've got hold of the right end of the stick, and read the other comments here? Seems that "other browsers" are not affected except Edge. Seems that Edge had some benchmark cheating flummery in it that no longer works with Youtube, despite Youtube remaining standards compliant.
As for what Microsoft did in the 90's, they didn't stop their dirty tricks back then and continue them right up to the present - take the Win10 "upgrade" saga for example.
Believe it or not, it seems that MS really learned their lesson.
The only lessons that Microsoft ever learn is how to become sneakier and dirtier.
Of course, I imagine it's just a whole lot easier to carry on the MS hate than it is to actually pause and take a look...
No, it's easier to cast off anything to do with Microsoft and get on with life without them. They had their chance and blew it, and I have zero sympathy with them being on the worse side of tactics that they invented themselves. I have neither the time nor inclination to go back and check whether there is anything worthwhile mixed in with the heap of shit that Microsoft look like from where I am now standing.
A stated measurement implies that it is accurate to within halfway to the adjacent steps. So 5.6875 inches implies that the actual size is between 5.68745 and 5.68755 : that is a precision of 0.00005 inches which is daft in this context and beyond what could be measured outside a standards laboratory (I have worked in one). OTOH, 5&11/16 inches implies a size between 5&21/32 and 5&23/32, that is a precision of 1/32 inch, or ~0.03 inch, much more sensible and could be measured with a ruler with care.
To put it another way, if I said the Statue of Liberty was 5.6875 inches high I would be giving the height with great precision. However, I would be wildly inaccurate.
It is the plaintiffs who are using ludicrous precision (I don't believe they really measured it to five significant figures - is this a conversion from metric or something?), they should have just said 5.7" which makes their case while actually being kind to Apple. Anyway their case is right, because Apple have overstated the size by 0.1" which is a significant amount in this context.
Apple and all manufacturers should if anything under-state things like sizes to avoid any argument. In olden times a merchant would have be hanged for this - hence the "baker's dozen" of 13 : you would ask for 12 but the baker gave you 13 in case he miscounted by one short and got hanged for it.
They obviously can do whatever they want- they can even add basket weaving if they so chose.
But adding non-athletic games would dilute the brand and probably have a consumer backlash.
Well they do have Synchronised Swimming, which (among other things) stops me from taking the Olympics seriously. In fact I just checked Wikipedia about it and they have recently re-named it "Artistic Swimming". So Art is now in the Olympics, explicitly.
My own sport interest is cycle racing, and it would get on fine without the Olympics : it has its own traditions and classic events. Meanwhile the Olympics has become more about showbiz and political posturing, which Synchronised, sorry Artistic Swimming sums up very well indeed.
.... an experience he had when visiting relatives in New Jersey. When getting a drink from the tap, "I saw a white film on the glass." After trying to scrub it off....
Why don't we just remove copyright protection completely for porn, then there will be no motivation to create more of it...
Who TF pays for porn? There is enough free stuff on the web that you could watch it 24/7 and never see the same stuff twice, although, of course, of course, I'm not speaking from experience.
Anyway there would still be porn, paid for or not; plenty of people will get a kick out of making it, and plenty of people are exhibitionists.
It's nice to have the interior and my door handle lights come on.
Eh? Even my very first car, an already ancient 1960's Vauxhall, had its interior light come on when I opened the door. Don't know what you mean by "door handle lights" - they glow in the dark?
It's also nice to leave the car locked but running w/o the fob.
You mean you are leaving it running without you in it? Why? Illegal in the UK anyway, and inadvisable anywhere (cases of software bugs changing transmission out of Park). Chist, in the UK it will soon become impossible to buy a car that does not have its engine automatically stop whenever the car stops moving, even in traffic, so obsessed the authorities have become with cutting emissions.
sure, you can use a Faraday cage. You can put it in the refrigerator (which some people actually do!), etc.
In other words the supposed convenience of having saved pushing a button on a fob on your key ring is more than completely negated by this sales gimmick. Could someone explain again why pushing a button is so hard?
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So we can now replace salemen with amoebas? I might even listen to an amoeba.
I don't understand all the hate that's directed towards Wikipedia. .... I guess that's because I just access the technical pages and stay away from the political ones.
Same with my experience. For example if I want to find something about a town on the other side of the world for some reason it is a good place to start and often enough for what I need. I have also edited, or written most of, a few articles in technical and history areas and my stuff is still there unchanged years later, and where it has changed it is usually corrections like typos, or added references.
No doubt if I got into edititing stuff about Trump, Brexit or Jimmy Wales' girlfriend, it would not remain unchanged for two minutes, but I don't try. Is that what people are complaining about?
Years ago I gave money to a charity ... and every single year they would call me looking for more.
Why TF did you need to give the charity either your phone number or your address?
For every creep you bust .a new creep is created to fill the vacuum left by the last.
So there is a queue of wannabe pedos waiting for vacancies to arise?
Which does not stop you from gettings ads, you just get ads for the wrong location.
That's fine, I find that funny, and it is satisfying to know that the admen are wasting effort on me and that their data well is poisoned. Almost as good as getting a live sales phonecall - my pretending I'm interested then leaving the handset on the table squawking away for the next 5 minutes to no-one.
For some reason ads on the web have got the idea that I live in Uxbridge, a suburb of London 200 miles from me, and that I need laser surgery on my eyes. That's just funny, not that I see ads very often anyway. OTOH if an ad were to come up that was relevant, like I really did want laser surgery on my eyes, I'd find it intrusive and sinister; and anyway I'm perfectly capable of seeking providers myself so it's patronising.
Similar problem to snail mail, but that has a monopoly and certain legal requirements protecting it. Many people would tear out their mail boxes if not for a few legally required things
Tear out their mail boxes when on-line shopping has taken off? A great deal of stuff I order comes through my mail box, up to a size of about a 10" cube.
Junk mail is only a small problem and a diminishing one. Some has pre-paid return envelopes which I return giving the name and details of a known spammer and asking for more info, rep to call, email newsletter, etc. Otherwise it's useful kindling for the fire.
One in every 10 American adults lost money from a phone scam, according to a yearly report the firm published in April this year.
I find that figure amazingly high. If I'd guessed I would have thought only 1 in 50 would take the call seriously, and only 1 in 1000 hand over money. , With that figure I'm surprised the calls are not continuous. Are they sure of their data?
I am in the UK and get a scam call on average once a year by landline and once a day if I switch on my mobile (it's usually off). If I answer the mobile there is usually silence anyway - presumably the scammer found another mark while my phone was ringing. If they do answer it is always about PPI. I think it helps that my land line is in a rural area; so the area code not being so populated makes it not worth while for the scammers to work through numerically.
It's a pity in a way : I like winding them up.
I guess this MS employee doesn't know much about the history of the company they work for.
Perhaps he does and assumes that MS can keep working the same way that they did - ie being in control of things, and expecting website developers to conform to their browser rather than being able to follow standards. Microsoft cannot cope with developing to standards, it is just not in their company culture, never has been.
Are you sure you've got hold of the right end of the stick, and read the other comments here? Seems that "other browsers" are not affected except Edge. Seems that Edge had some benchmark cheating flummery in it that no longer works with Youtube, despite Youtube remaining standards compliant.
As for what Microsoft did in the 90's, they didn't stop their dirty tricks back then and continue them right up to the present - take the Win10 "upgrade" saga for example.
Yes, because something a company did over a decade ago .....
Microsoft are shitting on people right up to the present day.
people like you are too obsessed with rubbing Microsoft's nose in the dirt over 15+ year old mistakes
By "mistakes" you mean "dirty tricks", and Microsoft did not cease playing them 15 years ago. They have never stopped playing dirty tricks.
Believe it or not, it seems that MS really learned their lesson.
The only lessons that Microsoft ever learn is how to become sneakier and dirtier.
Of course, I imagine it's just a whole lot easier to carry on the MS hate than it is to actually pause and take a look...
No, it's easier to cast off anything to do with Microsoft and get on with life without them. They had their chance and blew it, and I have zero sympathy with them being on the worse side of tactics that they invented themselves. I have neither the time nor inclination to go back and check whether there is anything worthwhile mixed in with the heap of shit that Microsoft look like from where I am now standing.
I think you are only re-inforcing my point.
A stated measurement implies that it is accurate to within halfway to the adjacent steps. So 5.6875 inches implies that the actual size is between 5.68745 and 5.68755 : that is a precision of 0.00005 inches which is daft in this context and beyond what could be measured outside a standards laboratory (I have worked in one). OTOH, 5&11/16 inches implies a size between 5&21/32 and 5&23/32, that is a precision of 1/32 inch, or ~0.03 inch, much more sensible and could be measured with a ruler with care.
To put it another way, if I said the Statue of Liberty was 5.6875 inches high I would be giving the height with great precision. However, I would be wildly inaccurate.
It's not ludicrous precision
I don't think you understand the meaning of rhe word "precision".
Apple have defined a new type of inch, a cool inch, and patented it too.
It is the plaintiffs who are using ludicrous precision (I don't believe they really measured it to five significant figures - is this a conversion from metric or something?), they should have just said 5.7" which makes their case while actually being kind to Apple. Anyway their case is right, because Apple have overstated the size by 0.1" which is a significant amount in this context.
Apple and all manufacturers should if anything under-state things like sizes to avoid any argument. In olden times a merchant would have be hanged for this - hence the "baker's dozen" of 13 : you would ask for 12 but the baker gave you 13 in case he miscounted by one short and got hanged for it.
watching some high-speed FPS or RTS, where any non-player doesn't have a clue what's going on.
Easy - you have to kill the things on the screen that look like monsters, as fast as you can.
By that same logic applying make-up should be an olympic sport.
For men or women?
I did hear it suggested that setting up colour schemes, wallpaper and fonts in WIndows should be in it. Or Bash prompts in Linux.
They obviously can do whatever they want- they can even add basket weaving if they so chose.
But adding non-athletic games would dilute the brand and probably have a consumer backlash.
Well they do have Synchronised Swimming, which (among other things) stops me from taking the Olympics seriously. In fact I just checked Wikipedia about it and they have recently re-named it "Artistic Swimming". So Art is now in the Olympics, explicitly.
My own sport interest is cycle racing, and it would get on fine without the Olympics : it has its own traditions and classic events. Meanwhile the Olympics has become more about showbiz and political posturing, which Synchronised, sorry Artistic Swimming sums up very well indeed.
FTFA :-
He sounds like a model house guest.
Why don't we just remove copyright protection completely for porn, then there will be no motivation to create more of it ...
Who TF pays for porn? There is enough free stuff on the web that you could watch it 24/7 and never see the same stuff twice, although, of course, of course, I'm not speaking from experience.
Anyway there would still be porn, paid for or not; plenty of people will get a kick out of making it, and plenty of people are exhibitionists.
It's nice to have the interior and my door handle lights come on.
Eh? Even my very first car, an already ancient 1960's Vauxhall, had its interior light come on when I opened the door. Don't know what you mean by "door handle lights" - they glow in the dark?
It's also nice to leave the car locked but running w/o the fob.
You mean you are leaving it running without you in it? Why? Illegal in the UK anyway, and inadvisable anywhere (cases of software bugs changing transmission out of Park). Chist, in the UK it will soon become impossible to buy a car that does not have its engine automatically stop whenever the car stops moving, even in traffic, so obsessed the authorities have become with cutting emissions.
sure, you can use a Faraday cage. You can put it in the refrigerator (which some people actually do!), etc.
In other words the supposed convenience of having saved pushing a button on a fob on your key ring is more than completely negated by this sales gimmick. Could someone explain again why pushing a button is so hard?
With payment by phone, expect plenty more scams like this.
of things I care nothing about